Barely 48 hours ahead of the expected landfall of Cyclone Yaas on Wednesday, people living in the Sunderbans region feel unprotected owing to the damage that Cyclone Amphan had caused to their first guard wall or the mangrove forest last year in May.
After the ravages caused by Amphan, the state forest department and many non-governmental organisations had joined hands to undertake a plantation programme and around five crore mangrove trees were planted over months. But before these trees could grow big enough to protect the region, the threat of a fresh cyclone, Yaas, has come to haunt a large section of people who live in the region.